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Blum's Model - Answer✔Identifies factors that affect health
The size of the arrows indicates the degree each factor affects a person's health
The model shows factors like prevention and rehabilitation have much less of an effect on
health than environmental factors, and somewhat less of an effect than heredity and lifestyle
Blum suggest several goals for a health system: - Answer✔1. Prolonging life and preventing
premature death
2. Minimizing departures from physiological or functional norms by focusing attention on
precursors of illness
3. Minimizing discomfort (illness)
4. Minimizing disability( incapacity)
5. Promoting high level of wellness
6. Promoting high level of satisfaction with the environment
7. Extending residents to ill health and creating reserve capacity
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8. Increasing opportunities for consumers to participate in heal matters
Four major inputs that contribute to health and well being - Answer✔1. Heredity
2. Medical Care Services
3. Lifestyles
4. Environment
All must be considered simultaneously when addressing the health status of an individual or a
population.
Heredity - Answer✔Genes and characteristics inherited from parents make a person more likely
or less likely to develop certain health problems and to be or not be healthy and well.
Medical Care Services - Answer✔Diagnosis and treat- ment in the care of patients, sometimes
limited to care by phy- sicians and sometimes more broadly including care by nurses, thera-
pists, and others who care for patients.
Lifestyles - Answer✔Patterns of attitudes and behaviors that make up one's way of living.
Environment - Answer✔The world that exists beyond one's own control and beyond the
borders that separate oneself from everything else. Environments include people,
organizations, societ- ies, forces, and many other elements.
Lack of Synchrony - Answer✔Variation in rates of hospitalization and lengths of hospital stay
Physicians practice patterns and clinical decisions vary sometimes widely
Some hospitals may have more access to technology
There is an important distinction between - Answer✔Need and Demand in for health services
History of health services - Answer✔1. Technology
2. Mortality and Morbidity
3. Social Welfare
Technology - Answer✔The great sanitary awakening" of the mid-19th century called for new
measures to purify food and water
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New medical technology in the late 19th century permitted efficacious surgical interventions
with greatly reduced rates of morbidity and mortality
Hospitals were often sponsored by private not-for-profit corporation
Morbidity and Mortality - Answer✔Most people died of acute infections such as pneumonia
Many communicable health problems common in the mid-19th century were solved through
preventive measures taken by health departments.Such as clean food and water
SOCIAL WELFARE - Answer✔Social Security Act of 1935 shifts responsibility for social welfare
from local to federal government
Government-sponsored national health insurance programs
Affordable Care Act in 2010 greatly increased the federal government's role in organizing,
controlling, and financing delivery of health services
Anticipated increased demand for geriatric healthcare
Other Western Systems - Answer✔Governments started financing health services much earlier
than in the U.S.
U.S. has the highest growth rate in healthcare spending.
Structure of the Health Services System - Answer✔1. Preventive Care
2.Primary Care
3.Secondary Care (acute care)
4.Tertiary/Quaternary Care (special care)
5.Restorative Care
6.Continuing Care
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